New York’s Big Drive Rapidly Organizing and Many Others Under Way for Allied Campaign

With New York’s preparations for its $2,500,000 drive making steady progress, a number of other important drives for the $6,000,000 Allied Jewish Campaign have been scheduled for the current month, according to an announcement from national headquarters.

A trip through the middle West by Chairman Baerwald and Bressler, and through several Eastern States by Chairman Lewis, with Chairman Rothenberg, and Honorary Secretary Hyman at the helm at national headquarters, in New York City, has further accelerated the tempo of the campaign.

New York’s drive was given additional assurance of success by the acceptance by Mrs. Felix Warburg of the chairmanship of the Women’s Division, with an advisory committee. Her forces have been further augmented by Mrs. Judith Epstein, national secretary of Hadassah, who has volunteered her services as secretary of the New York Women’s Division, and by the acceptance of Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, wife of the former Ambassador to Turkey, as chairman of the West Side Women’s Division. Mrs. Elkus was chairman of the Women’s Division of the famous $6,000,000 drive of the United Jewish Campaign in New York City in 1926.

Arkansas will hold a state conference on May 18. Mississippi is also organizing a state conference, to be held simultaneously with the opening of a drive in Jackson on May 11. North Dakota will hold a state conference on June 8.

Drives held last week include San Antonio, Texas, and New Haven, Conn.

Drives outside of New York City, definitely scheduled to be held before the end of June include Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 4; Portsmouth, N. H., May 5; Detroit, Mich., May 11; Minneapolis, Minn., May 12; Joplin, Mo., May 17; Bayonne, N. J., May 20; Gardiner and Augusta, Me., May 25; Bridgeport, Conn., June 4, and Duluth, Minn., June 10.

Judge William M. Lewis will be the principal speaker at the opening dinner of the New Brunswick, N. J., drive on May 15, and Charleston, S. C., will start on May 11. Cities where drive-dates will be fixed shortly include, Philadelphia, Pa., Stamford and Waterbury, Conn., Washington, D. C., Peoria, Ill., Lincoln, Nebr., Akron and Toledo, O., Huntington and Charleston, W. Va., Yonkers, N. Y., Norfolk, Va., Fort Wayne and Lafayette, Ind., and St. Paul, Minn. Milford Stern, who was chairman of the Palestine Emergency Fund campaign in Detroit last September, has accepted the chairmanship of the Allied Jewish Campaign in Michigan outside of Detroit.